Chapter 16 - Antecedent Control Procedures

Question 1

Identify the three functional interventions for behavior problems

Answer 1

Differential Reinforcement, Extinction, and Antecedent Control

Question 2

To evoke the desirable behavior, you would present the ____ that has stimulus control over the desirable behavior

Answer 2

Discriminative Stimulus

Question 3

To make the desirable behavior more likely, you could make the reinforcer for the behavior more potent by arranging an ____

Answer 3

Establishing Operation

Question 4

To make a desirable behavior more likely, you could ____ response effort for the behavior

Answer 4

Decrease

Question 5

To make it more likely that you will study, schedule study time in your appointment book each day. What procedure is this?

Answer 5

Present the Sd or Cues

Question 6

To make it more likely that you will sleep at night, get up early and don’t take a nap during the day. What procedure is this?

Answer 6

Arrange an Establishing Operation

Question 7

To make it more likely that you will exercise regularly, sign up at a gym close to your home. What procedure is this?

Answer 7

Decrease response effort

Question 8

Presenting an abolishing operation for a behavior will make the behavior less likely to occur because it makes the _____ less potent

Answer 8

Undesirable behavior

Question 9

You keep your nicotine gum on your desk at work to make it more likely that you will chew it instead of smoking. What two antecedent control procedures are you using in this case?

Answer 9

Remove DS and Cues for undesirable behavior

Question 10

Putting parking lots by interstate exits has helped make carpooling more likely to occur in some cities. What antecedent control strategy is exemplified in this case?

Answer 10

Decrease response effort for the desirable behavior

Question 11

_____ procedures are used to evoke desirable behaviors and decrease undesirable behaviors

Answer 11

Antecedent control

Question 12

To decrease an undesirable behavior, you could remove the ____ that has stimulus control over the undesirable behavior

Answer 12

Sd/Cues

Question 13

To decrease an undesirable behavior, you could make the reinforcer for the behavior less potent by presenting an ____

Answer 13

Abolishing Operation

Question 14

To make an undesirable behavior less likely, you could ____ response effort for the behavior

Answer 14

Increase

Question 15

To make it less likely that you will buy junk food, only shop after you’ve eaten a full meal. What procedure is this?

Answer 15

Presenting an Abolishing Operation

Question 16

To make it less likely that you will buy junk food in the store, don’t go down the junk food isle. What procedure is this?

Answer 16

Eliminate the Sd or cues

Question 17

To make it less likely that you will eat junk food, do not keep any junk food in your home or at work. What procedure is this?

Answer 17

Increase response effort

Question 18

Why is a behavior more likely to occur when you arrange an establishing operation for the behavior?

Answer 18

Because you increase the reinforcing value of the consequence behavior

Question 19

Fritz engages in disruptive behavior in the classroom when he has to do difficult math problems. When he engages in disruptive behavior, he is sent to the principal and gets out of doing his math problems.

What is the reinforcer for Fritz disruptive behavior?
How could you present an abolishing operation in this example to help Fritz decrease his disruptive behavior?

Answer 19

• Difficult math problems

- Give simpler math problems

Question 20

Extinction, differential reinforcement and antecedent control are three ____ interventions for problem behaviors

Answer 20

Functional

Question 21

What are the three antecedents control procedures you could use to increase the likelihood of a desired response?

Answer 21

Presenting Sd, Arranging an EO, and decreasing the response effort

Question 22

What are the three antecedent control procedures you could use to decrease the likelihood of an undesirable behavior?

Answer 22

Remove Sd, abolish operation, and increase response effort

Question 23

___ response effort for a behavior will make the behavior more likely and _____ the response effort for a behavior will make the behavior less likely

Answer 23

Establishing operations, Abolishing Operations

Question 24

If a person engages in a problem behavior for attention, how could you present an abolishing operation for the behavior?

Answer 24

Not pay attention when the problem behavior is present

Question 25

To eat less supper, drink a lot of water before supper so you aren’t hungry. What procedure is this?

Answer 25

Presenting an Abolishing Operation

Question 26

To eat more vegetables, buy a dip for the vegetables that taste great. What procedure is this?

Answer 26

Arrange an establishing operation

Question 27

To get yourself to floss regularly, leave the floss out on the bathroom counter where you can see it. What procedure is this?

Answer 27

Present the Sd or cues

Question 28

To recycle waste paper, put the recycle box on your desk instead of across the room next to the waste basket. What procedure is this?

Answer 28

Increase response effort

Question 29

To eat less candy, take the candy off the kitchen table and put the candy away in the cupboard where you wont see it. What procedure is this?

Answer 29

Remove the Sd or Cues

Question 30

Define Antecedent Control Procedures

Answer 30

Antecedent stimuli are manipulated to evoke desirable behaviors, so that they can be deferentially reinforced and to decrease undesirable behavior that interfere with the desirable behavior

Question 31

Define Functional Interventions

Answer 31

They decrease problem behaviors and increase desirable behavior by modifying the antecedent and consequent variables that control the behaviors